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Word: unwittingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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But it is easy to understand the relief it would give a reviewer to be able to pin some sort of label on the film. The director, Jack Garfein, and the scriptwriter, Calder Willingham--who reworked his own 1947 novel and his 1953 Broadway play, both called End As a...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: The Strange One | 5/16/1957 | See Source »

Unwitting Blunder. The answers were electrifying. Faure, who bears Mollet a deep grudge, had drafted the motion and stood by it. But Laniel confessed that he had never seen the text-"They just read me something over the telephone"-and publicly disavowed it. So did Pinay. Bird-like old Paul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN EUROPE: Within Our Grasp | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

However they may be improved, the rating systems and their tyranny over TV hold no hope for the viewer who believes that the verdict of democracy is fine for government but folly for television. The viewer is both the unwitting culprit and the ultimate victim of the tyranny. The ratings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Only Wheel in Town | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

As the young Belgian girl was about to begin her novitiate in an order of nuns whose motto is "Pray and Work," the Superior General gravely warned her: "It is not easy to be a nun. It is a life of sacrifice and self-abnegation. It is a life against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Failure | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

* Not entirely a new Democratic line. In 1948, Harry Truman called the Republican Party the unwitting ally of U.S. Communists, asserted that the Reds wanted a Republican Administration "because they think that its reactionary policies will lead to the confusion and strife on which Communism thrives."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The Issue of Softness | 7/23/1956 | See Source »

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